I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1024: One after another
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Many years later, when I recalled the summer schedule in 1998, "Charlie's Angels3", "The Matrix2", "The Day After Tomorrow", etc., such a series of large films may not be an unavoidable topic, but for most people, they The first thought that came to my mind was almost the scene of the extremely frightening wraith crawling out of the TV.
The three-day Box Office in the first weekend of "Ring" is not too good, only 26.68 million USD.
However, as the reputation of this classic horror film has rapidly spread, the Box Office in the first seven days of the film reached 43.88 million USD.
On the surface, the number of 43.88 million USD does not seem to be comparable to most of the hot summer movies. But don't forget that the production cost of this film is only 30 million USD, which is much lower than any of the summer blockbuster films.
Moreover, comparing with the three days of the first weekend, it is not difficult to find that the number of Box Office on the first Thursday day of "Ring" is 17200,000 USD, which is equivalent to 39% of the first week of Box Office, far more than most of the film workdays occupy 30% of the entire week The average Box Office ratio is around. Combined with this, coupled with a lot of feedback from the media and fans, the new line Film Industry keenly judged that the word-of-mouth of "Ring" was continuing to ferment, and decisively increased the number of screens from 2161 to 2395.
Then, in the first week of August, the Box Office of "Ring" fell unexpectedly, only a very weak 9.7%, and then closed 39650,000 USD. The first week of "X Archives" released in the same week, Box Office was only less than two million USD higher than "Ring", barely taking the Box Office championship position that week.
Under such circumstances, the new line has once again greatly increased the scale of "Ring" screenings, bringing the number of North America screens on the film to 2,775. At the same time, after half a month of fermentation, the reputation and popularity of "Ring" has reached a peak. The trend among young people has even seen watching "Ring" as a challenge, and more passers-by audiences are also there. Under the influence of the media and the public, began to walk into the cinema.
In the third week, "Ring", which was suppressed by "Scorpion King" and "X file" for two weeks, finally won the championship of the Box Office leaderboard for the week. The single week Box Office fell still only 11.2%. , And then receive 35.19 million USD.
Unconsciously, many people suddenly found that a medium-cost horror film that was not conspicuous in the past three weeks has accumulated Box Office and has reached 100 million 187 50,000 USD, even exceeding "Lethal Weapon 4" at the beginning of the summer file The total North America total of Box Office for "Patriot", "Chumen's World" and more, and, in the current situation, Ring's Box Office potential is far more than that.
With the help of Firefly Group, the gradually formed fan group of "Ring" began to pay more attention to the film's Box Office. The increasing popularity and a new wave of propaganda offensive have once again attracted more brand new audiences.
So, in the fourth week, the Box Office drop of "Ring" ended up only a measurable 1.7%, yes, it was 1.7%, not 17%.
The Box Office of 34.59 million USD in a single week also pushed the total Box Office of the North America of the film to 100 million46.97 million USD. This Box Office number directly pushed "Ring" to the sixth place in the North America Box Office ranking as of August 1998 Right after "Charlie's Angels3", "The Day After Tomorrow", "The Matrix2", "Scorpion King" and "Austin Powers2" of the Easter period. Moreover, in the top ten Box Office ranking list, the production cost of all other films is at least more than twice that of "Ring".
At this time, all the media that originally predicted that Firefly Group will have a quiet summer file are dumbfounded. Even Eric himself did not expect that "Ring" will burst out such a powerful Box Office potential.
According to the current Box Office trend, "Ring" is likely to have a Box Office potential not less than 100 million USD. The total North America Box Office of the film will even exceed the Firefly summer "The Day After Tomorrow". In the face of such an excellent North America Box Office, the overseas Box Office of the film will naturally not be inferior, especially Japanese, considering various reasons, just this overseas ticket warehouse is enough to bring Firefly overseas Box Office not less than 100 million USD.
There are two works that are enough to break into the top five of North America's Box Office ranking in a summer season. Who dare to say that this is the Film Industry trough period of Firefly Group?
At the same time, almost the same week as "Ring" was released, the economic crisis of Russia finally broke out on the other side of the earth.
Unlike the prolonged tug-of-war in Southeast Asia countries, the fragile Russia economy is almost helpless in the face of major hedge fund attacks. The entire country ’s foreign exchange reserves of more than 10 billion USD are not enough even for a large foreign debt To repay, let alone effectively intervene in currency exchange rates.
So, in just two weeks, the Russia central bank, which had basically done nothing to effectively resist, announced very sternly that it would completely abandon its protection of the ruble exchange rate.
The ruble, which has just stabilized for less than three years, has plummeted, with a depreciation of more than 50% in just one week.
However, the opponent lay down completely before the attack, and the attacker who punched with a punch will not have a good result.
The practice of Russia completely allowing the ruble to depreciate has also caused huge losses to international financial speculators.
Foreign exchange Petroleum is a zero-sum game after all, if someone takes the order, both sides of the bet can make a profit. In the early stage, the international financial speculators who bought a lot of rubles in preparation for the establishment of short positions aimed at the foreign exchange reserves of Russia. Now Russia is no longer recruiting. The ruble in the hands of international financial speculators not only depreciates substantially, but also pays high short-term borrowing interest costs. lost heavily.
In addition, the early-stage optimistic Russia economic recovery, such as Suo Ross ’s quantum fund, has invested heavily in its stock market and bonds. It has also been caught in the economic quagmire of Russia. It ’s just the quantum fund family, after completing the cut off , The expected loss may exceed 3billion USD.
I have to say that compared with the countries where Southeast Asia has been cut two consecutive crops of wool, although the economy is also broken, but the Russia battle nationality that you want me to finish playing together is still undoubtedly revealed .
The rapid collapse of Russia, an emerging economy, accurately confirmed the speculation given by Morgan Stanley over a month ago. Under the further advocacy and guidance of Morgan Stanley, more and more capital began to pay more attention to the NASDAQ technology stock market.
In a month, the Nasdaq index has not been affected by the Russia economic crisis, but has steadily exceeded the 2100 point high. Almost all mainstream technology stocks are red.
On Saturday, August 22, Eric departed from Los Angeles to New York early in the morning.
Today is the day when Firefly investment and several other major shareholders of AOL signed equity transfer agreements. Although Saturday is not a working day, "Gravity" is in a tight shoots period, and Eric will only have time on weekends. New York can only fit his schedule.
In the past month, without the pressure of Firefly investment to reduce holdings, the market value of AOL has rushed to 49600 million USD and exceeded the 50billion USD mark.
Although the share price of AOL has risen nearly 20% in a month, in order to avoid further waves, Eric has not adjusted the transfer price that has been agreed.
A lot of times, you give up the idea of greed to get more. If Eric is sitting on the floor again at this time, the investor ’s confidence in AOL will definitely be hit again, and the first phase of the Firefly investment reduction plan for AOL stock will also be cut off.
Because Eric has given the same pricing for another 15% of the shares that Firefly investment is about to reduce through Morgan Stanley, at this time, the underwriting plan of Morgan Stanley has not just begun, and a large number of investors have frequently contacted Firefly Investment and Morgan Stanley , Trying to get more subscription share.
Although according to the agreement and the SEC regulations, there will be a six-month lock-up period for the stocks bought at this time, but even if the stock price of AOL will remain unchanged for the next six months, they will still get 20 % Profit.
Under a good economic situation in the Nasdaq market, AOL ’s own performance growth rate is also very eye-catching. Therefore, most investment institutions have gradually changed their original cautious attitude and considered the possibility of loss in this transaction. Very little.
On the plane flying to New York, Eric held a Box Office analysis report of "Ring" in his hand and leaned back on the sofa. Carolyn and Meyer sat beside him, but the report was another matter.
“Last month, Warner Records, Sony Records, BMG and EMI Records successively released their second quarter financial results, which were 27%, 33%, 29% and 26% lower than the same period last year. The performance decline of Universal record business integration with PolyGram has reached 36%, with a single-quarter loss of 320 million USD. "
Meyer gave a brief introduction to the current situation, looked at the expression of Eric, and continued: "According to the statistics of the major Record Company and media statistics during this period, the five major Record Company's revenue plunge was mainly due to a It was caused by a batch of free MP3 music sharing websites. Among them, it is just a music sharing website called Napster, which has more than 7million registered users in just over six months, and the number of free music on this website has reached more than 1.6 million. Napster He was still a registered member of Yahoo Advertisement Alliance in the early days. However, in March, with the rapid growth of Napster, considering the legal risks, Yahoo ended its cooperation with Napster and other batches of pirated music sites in time. But this time, the top five Record Company A batch of litigation targets filed also included Yahoo. The reason for their prosecution was that Yahoo promoted the growth and spread of Napster. The five major Record Company therefore claimed Yahoo for 100 million USD and asked the Yahoo search engine to actively block websites that spread pirated music content . "
The IPO of Yahoo is approaching. The large-scale litigation of the five major Record Company will bring Yahoo to piggyback. Obviously, they want to cooperate with Yahoo, the first Internet portal platform, in the fight against online pirated music.
For this kind of joint, in order to avoid extra-articular branches, Yahoo also had to make a compromise and settle out of court with the five major Record Company as soon as possible. Just like the five major Record Company proposed to Napster for the compensation of 100,000 USD for each piece of pirated music, the 100 million USD compensation for Yahoo must not be considered, but in the process of out of court settlement, Yahoo must also agree to more conditions for the five major Record Company.
"They are smart this time, they will save the enemy," Eric just smiled. After hearing Madonna's reminder at United Kingdom a few months ago, he asked several companies to prepare for this. I ’m not worried now that the Yahoo will not be able to cope with it, and continue to ask: "Where is the Firefly electronics?"
Meyer Seoul shook his head and said: "The five major Record Company have not yet acted against Firefly Electronics. However, they should next file a lawsuit requesting Firefly Electronics to enforce restrictions on audio copying."
After the lawsuits filed by Sony Records and several other companies were directly rejected by the Federal Court of San Francisco last year, the five major Record Company apparently knew that the attempt to continue to ban MP3 players would be impossible.
"After this time, Record Company should be able to see some situations. The trend of digital music is inevitable. The Yahoo music store can happen to get more genuine music licenses." Eric said, do n’t want to worry too much, look up The Carolyn and Meyer commanded: "Send an email to remind Yahoo to pay attention to this situation and build momentum. If someone still can't see the situation, we will help them see clearly."
For several months, the monthly sales of global of Fireflyer players have remained above 2 million, and it has shown a steady growth trend. The trend of portable digital music players replacing traditional music players has been irresistible. In this case, if Record Company continues to resist and resist digital music players, it will only cause more Internet pirated music resources to appear.
Talking about these things, the private jet has reached the east coast without realizing it.
The equity transfer signing ceremony was confirmed to take place at two o'clock in the Eastern Time. At this time, it was close to one o'clock. The private jet did not fly to MacArthur Airport in the center of Long Island this time, but landed at Kennedy International Airport, which is close to New York .
As soon as Eric got off the plane, Chris, John · Mark and others greeted them. Among them were several AOL executives including Steve · Kies. Although the two sides almost completely torn their faces some time ago, but at this time, the face For Eric and AOL, they dare not ignore the proper etiquette.
After greeting everyone, they left the airport together. Eric and Chris got on the Firefly Group car and waited for the car to run smoothly. Thinking of the John · Mark initiative to invite himself to his car, he clearly had something to say, and asked the Chris beside him: " What happened to John? "
Chris glanced at the nearby BMW car and said: "He should have wanted to explain it to you in advance, you are on the plane, I haven't had time to tell you yet. At the noon dinner, Philip Pu Searle told me that Morgan Stanley has confirmed that the 15% AOL stock has exceeded 70% of the subscription amount. However, perhaps it is to invite credit, or may have other thoughts. John · Mark has hidden these news from us. In addition, Philip Pu Searle should have forcibly intervened in this project. You know, Dean Witt was originally engaged in the stock distribution and retail business. Their resources and channels in this respect must be much stronger than the original Morgan Stanley. "
Eric is not very interested in the fighting methods of Morgan StanleyCEO and Chairman, but just urged: "You have to think more about it. If their internal fighting affects our interests, we need to be more cautious in future cooperation. "
Chris nodded seriously and said, "I understand, by the way, on your side, the Box Office of" Ring "looks really surprising."
The topic became lighter, and Eric laughed: "This is really an accident. I never expected this horror movie to be so successful."